1 Thessalonians 5:8

and we, being of the day — let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet — a hope of salvation,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

In Context

7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

9because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Cross References

Psalms 42:5What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance — My God!

Psalms 43:5What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

Lamentations 3:26Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

Romans 8:24for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for [it]?

1 Corinthians 13:13and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.

Galatians 5:5for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11

Watchfulness and Sobriety. ( a. d. 51.) 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. On… Read the whole commentary →

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